Claudia Julieta Duque

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Bogotá, Colombia, December 22, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the conviction of a former high-ranking Colombian intelligence official who on December 19 was sentenced to 11 years in prison for carrying out a campaign of aggression and death threats against investigative journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, according to news reports.

More
than a year after he left office, Álvaro Uribe Vélez confessed that "it was
not in him" to live as a former president. And in fact, having dominated
Colombian politics for eight years, it has been impossible for Uribe to fade
from the public eye since leaving office in August 2010. Instead of retiring to
his ranch in Antioquia, he has lived in a heavily protected compound in the
capital, Bogotá, with his wife and two sons. He spends his time traveling
abroad for speaking engagements, has been a scholar at Georgetown
University, and more recently announced the creation of
a new political platform to oppose current President Juan Manuel Santos.

New York, August 24, 2011--The Committee to
Protect Journalists is concerned about comments made by former Colombian
President Álvaro Uribe Vélez that could endanger journalists Juan Forero and
Claudia Julieta Duque and jeopardize press freedom in the country. Forero is
the Washington Post's Andean region
correspondent and Duque is a journalist who works in Colombia.

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Last week’s cover story in the leading Colombian newsweekly Semana—known for investigations that have shaken the core of the administration of President Alvaro Uribe Vélez—revealed further evidence of illegal
wiretapping of journalists by the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), the country’s national intelligence service. The article, titled “A
handbook for threats,” disclosed outrageous details about the intimidation techniques used by the DAS on journalists it considered dangerous.